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 For a whole week after he was determined in his mind to have one of that particular construction which is made to draw back horizontally, to hinder a passage; and to thrust forwards again to gain a passage,—of which sorts your worships might have seen three famous ones at Spires before its destruction,—and one now at Brisac, if I mistake not;—but my father advising my uncle Toby, with great earnestness, to have nothing more to do with thrusting bridges,—and my uncle foreseeing moreover that it would but perpetuate the memory of the corporal's misfortune,—he changed his mind, for that of the invention, which the younger  has so well and learnedly described, as your worships may see,—''Act. Erud. Lips''. an. 1695,—to these a lead weight is an eternal ballance, and keeps watch as well as a